William Carlos Williams and his poetry

Biographical info.

• born sep. 17 1883
• died march 4 1963
• born in Rutherford, New Jersey
• student at Horace Mann high school
• MD at university of PA
• writer and a doctor

Style

• Imagist
• vivid imagery
• strong, simple language
• no punctuation
• talks about plums a lot.
• uses meter and lineation
• based on everyday circumstances for people
• principle poet of images movement
• metaphorical images

important poems.

• "this is just to say"
• "A love song"
• "the red wheelbarrow"
• "Danse Russe"
• "kora in hell"
• "spring and all"

Influences

• Ezra Pound
• Cold War
• Hilda Doolittle
• Charles Deemuth

Pertinent info.

• he has a theatre named after him "williams theatre"